. good morning, it is windy, several trees were knocked over by the wind, that was following a big storm monday night. i will let you know when thunderstorms could be moving back to the bay area. police are called to a peninsular and the bizarre incident that all led to a

tense standoff, it is all ahead on the bay morning news. this is ktvu channel 2 morning news. good morning, thank you for joining us on this windy morning, it is wednesday march 6th, i am pam cook. >> yes, we just talked about it a few second ago. >> my car was moving. >> the advertised storm moved over right as scheduled. >> there is still some wet roadways and you can't pick out shades of white translates to snow out towards the sierra and right now you can see scoured showers and the airport is reporting some rain and focused to the south bay, santa cruz mountains we were indicating some heavier rainfalls out towards the fremont area and

parts of the bay. sal right now has an update on the wet roadways, good morning, sal. it is windies specialsly if you are -- especially if you are driving across bridges. let's go to highway 4. it looks good driving to the tunnel and there have been no major fun der -- fender benders, let's go back to the desk. strong winds and an overnight down pour knocked down a tree near the beyond mere parkway. the tree knocked over two cars. one was so damaged she said she has to work from home today. >> there is a lot of damage, the whole side of my car is just damaged.

>> the tenants said they parked in the open areas because all the car ports were taken. they will now look to their landlord to reimburse them. they knocked down some power lines and a few dozen are without power in sonoma county. some of the largest outages, more than 1,000 customers don't have power in del reyes. the boat stranded a woman early this morning and the cabin cruiser was swept out at 1:30 with a woman on board. her boats' engine was not working. >> it was hard for any of our

small boats to reach the vessel and they contacted the woman and made sure she was okay and hoped she would return to the marina. following a police shooting in san francisco, it happened in the city's bay view district. officers spot add car wanted in connection with an armed carjacking and that later led to a police chase. they put his car in reverse and ran over an officer as was ready to strike again. >> he could easily have killed two of his brother officers, he fired striking the driver one time. the bmw ran over one of the other officers. >> the driver is listed in

stable condition at the hospital and this is the 6th police shooting in the bay area since friday. police in santa cruz are given an opportunity to honor the fallen. a viewing will be held today from 3:00 to 8:00 p.m. on ocean street. today's viewing comes one day before the pavilion. now it begins during the morning news and it will continue as a funeral procession makes its way to san jose. in the meantime we are learning now information about the man who shot and skilled the two. jeremy was moving out of his house when detectives arrived at his door.

he just lost his job at a coffee shop and was getting ready to move. the shooting took place outside of his home. a patient became allstateed and start -- agitated and started a fire, here is more with tara moriarty. >> reporter: a person set a small fire and you can imagine there were some frayed nerves in the emergency room. a patient became disgruntled and barricaded himself inside a small room. a police negotiator talked the man with in to surrender within two hours. >> i heard all of the commotion, 25 squad cars flying by and i see a number of police

officers running around the hospital with their firearms out. >> the fire was confined to one room and caused minimal damage. nobody was injured in the standoff. he will now undergo a mental evaluation. tara moriarty ktvu channel 2 morning news. there was another incident. this one in san francisco. investigators say an angry patient set somebody on fire and torched a trash can. it caused just minor damage. the man is accused of driving drunk and killing a high school student.

17-year-old man hit her son day night. but the city also plans to add flashing lights and the work will not start until summer. >> new taxes will be used to fix them. the city council explored several new ideas they plan to extend and a $295 million road measure for repairs. they should make a decision this fall and it seems yahoo is starting a trend. another company is changing its policy about working from tomorrow. he could not hide his ex- site. . the 1.2 billion stadium and it will open next year.

they are looking being to host the new bridge. 25 lights were switch -- 2 5,000 lights were switched on and many were parked along the embarcadero and many wanted a front row seat. he thinks the display will be popular. >> we anticipate people from all over the worlds to view this and obviously it will compliment many events we have. >> the art display will shine every night from dusk to 2:00 a.m. to 2015. sal, it was very windy, i mean up could feel my car blow. >> he specially if you have a

small car, i think you need to be careful out there and we are here with today's extended it traffic. it is wet and windy and let's take a look at some of the room mutes. light traffic with this -- take a look at some of the traffic trick. light traffic and a look at 280 northbound up to highway 17, it does look good, let's go to mark. the weather is topping the headlines today up in the north

bay, and out towards the sierra, we have 80 and 50s. santa rosa is reporting some light rain and most reason observation and here is a light doppler sweep and the main focus and the southern third in parts of the south bay and fremont, these yellows do indicate more moderate downpours and in san jose closer to willow friend, it is still breezy and you can see a gust up to 40 miles per hour and the winds are sustained at 23 miles per hour. and fairfield out of the southwest end 16 miles per hour. these readings are mainly in the upper 40s to 50s and santa

rosa 42 do go. tomorrow we will introduce more rain and over the weekend we clear out the clouds and warm things back up. here is the area responsible for the rain this morning. we haded circulation and we have snow levels which are possibly down to thousand people feet. as you notice we have a few breaks in the clouds and a few pop-up showers and breaks in the action and we take it to thursday, look what happens thursday morning being and the activity begin begins to increase for tomorrow afternoon. a ooh it is a big it t- and

counsel being things up, winter storm is taking place right now. it is now moving towards the nation's capital and because of the storm federal agencies will be closed and and hods more than 11 flights were canceled -- at chicago 11 flights were cancel under as well. >> that is a lot of snow. venezuela president hugo chavez dies and we have a reaction here in the bay area. a woman visited oakland for a job interview. traffic is moving well, we

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. your full forecast is coming up in a few minutes. we have some breaking news, right now san francisco s.w.a.t. teams are on the scene of a bear cave situation in the city's behave view dis-- bay view district. two suspects are barricaded in the building. alex savage is headed to the scene right now. thousands are expected to line the streets as venezuela president hugo chavez is taken from the hospital where he died. >> supporters gathered in the capital city after his death

was announced. the 58-year-old had been battling cancer for the last few years. there will be another interim president until an election is held. >> venezuela president hugo chavez... >> supporters in the bay area held a rally. he was an outspoken critic of the united states and they admired him because he took care of the poor and stood up against powerful nations. the instructor for iraq said the money put into them has not been worth the cost. after $60 billion in ten years, iraq is so unstable that even iraqi leaders are worried whether rebuilding is worth the cost. they did not consult with the

iraqis to see what list the projects were wanted or needed. passengers are needed and they will be permitted as carry on luggage. they may not present a risk to a locked door and they could be dangerous to passengers or crew members in the cabin. the changes take affect on april 5th. a person is killed while having an interview with google. he was robbed of a small amount of cash and his widow came across the country to testify and she almost didn't make it because she is still struggling with the loss. >> i think this is the last

thing i can really do for my husband. >> george huggins and his girlfriend have been charged with the killing. higgins trial starts today. george resigned after misusing political money from donors. the election is expected to cost $1 million. another company is eliminating tell commuting. they had been allowed to work from home and now this move comes as best buy struggles to improve their bottom line.

the men aboard the fishing border rick when it returned over months ago. remains were found with the boat with they were given the remains to finally and she people accused of stealing a yacht are being held on $1 million bail. the yacht ran aground and they broke in and found the keys to the engine. they don't know if they knew how to sale but they managed to leave the harbor yesterday morning. council voted 6- 1 as soon as it is practical. it does not make streets safer or reduce the number of

accidents and some accidents increase. it is an element, sal, how is it looking but you mentioned it, brian, the wind is kicking up and we all felt it on the way in and it is not a good idea for you to be driving recklessly but today, both hands should be on the steering wheel. that traffic is moving along well, so you might want to give yourself extra time and there are problems on the bay bridge and it came out this morning and the roads were all wet.

we have northbound 280 as you head to highway 17 and as you can tell, you will be dealing with some puddles and some wet roads, let's go to mark. it was quite a potent storm, as far as rainfall totals, santa rosa .83 with this system san francisco and san jose, we were just adding to the totals. we will move the maps to the south and not a lot of activity will show you towards oakland and parts of the east bay was closer to the fremont area and some wet roadways as you can't see here. we are talking about the winds still gusting out there, same

out towards oakland, fairfield 16 miles per hour and as far as current temperatures, they are in the upper 40s to the 50s, san jose 49, downtown san francisco 3 the degrees. the cold front this area of low pressure this will be your key feature to show it was cold enough that we are talking 3,000 feet so we could have a dusting in the bay area hills and in fact we have more of a dusting up above 500 feet. small showers could become more prevalent. there is another system strength and this comes into the area especially by the afternoon. for today off and on

temperatures, 4040s and five 5s. not much of a caps the a chance of a few thunder storms and wile dry up and warmup this weekend. thieves hit an important storage facility for two different charities, we will have more on how much was lost and how much was affected.

. >> police say the officer's dog was poisoned friday. when he took the dog he also poisoned a police canine in his care. one dog is recovering. the first group, christmas for everyone, they feed and give gifts to everyone but the thieves took nearly everything. >> all of our cooking pots, thousands of dollars in presence, they took our trees, our clothes, 68 tables, 100 chairs, everything we need. >> high school seniors also

lost. they lost nearly all of their supplies and the group suffered a combined 9,000 -- $69,000 loss and the sheriff's deputies are tracking down leads. there is an area in the bay view for to you avoid, yosemite, there is a critical police incident going on there but one thing we want you to do let's go up and take a look at some of these pictures. the storm still has some wind associated with it. a lot of people have been tweeting that it is windy. this came up on a tall building and it is shaking and it is

pretty windy and my words are coming out too fast. if you are driving on the dumbarton, be careful. let's did he to mark. yes, the winds will stick around for the evening commute, in parts of the south bay and closer to fremont, this activity has been drifting to the south and in fact we will show you how it looks closer to the san martin hill and san martinez area. this rain is affecting parts of the bay area. this area of low pressure, this could produce some interesting weather for tomorrow with the possibility of some low rain house is. we have a few scattered showers and some breaks in the clouds and once again we